Laura Owens Whitney 8th Floor

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Laura owens whitney 8th floor.

Six hundred and sixty three pages of. The radical paintings of laura owens. Willem de kooning a desperate view in the collected writings of willem de kooning madras and new york. Laura owens installation view whitney museum of american art new york 2017 18.

The los angeles presentation is coordinated by bennett simpson senior curator with rebecca matalon assistant curator the museum of contemporary art los angeles. A detail from an untitled seascape in laura owens s midcareer survey at the whitney museum of american art. It s hard to say but i guess i would take them up to the 8th floor where we are installing a five panel painting. Laura owens in her los angeles studio.

It s a recreation of. Five panels 108 x 84 in. Acrylic oil and vinyl paint on linen with powder coated aluminum strainer. Laura owens is perhaps best known for her post digital canvases that bend painting and pixelation in uncanny ways.

Whitney museum presents pioneer of innovative painting. The exhibition will be the first mid career survey in the whitney s new downtown. 274 3 x 213 4 cm each. So thought laura owens when she was 14.

In contrast her retrospective at the whitney museum shows a painter who since her move to los angeles in the early 1990s has been meticulously concerned with how the mind encounters text image information and objects without restricting herself to any one. For more than twenty years los angeles based artist laura owens has pioneered an innovative approach to painting that has made her one of the most influential artists of her generation. Whitney museum of american art new york. Owens and the whitney curator scott rothkopf have created an astonishing catalogue both epic and intimate.

And brought down to the floor level in untitled one imagines owens went to feed the beast only to find herself its meal. Laura owens is organized by the whitney museum of american art new york. Her bold and experimental work challenges traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction as well as the relationships among avant garde art craft pop culture and technology. Hyperallergic carolee schneemann on five decades of meat harnesses and innovation online october 2017.

Now the whitney museum is dedicating her a comprehensive solo show. 1970 untitled 2015 installation view whitney museum of american art new york. This 2009 painting pairs lurid tones of purples and pinks with clunky white waves.